UberMedia, a collection of third-party Twitter tools that includes TweetDeck, PostUp, UberTwitter, Echofon and others, has raised $17.5 million in funding from Accel Partners, Index Ventures and Steve Case's Revolution Ventures. The funding, first re...

Path, the almost counterintuitive "personal networking" startup, has just dried the ink on an $8.65 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures with participation from Digital Garage Japan and First Round Capital. Inde...

SoundCloud, an audio platform that lets people record and share their music, announced today that it will be expanding into North America, with a new base in San Francisco. The company, which launched in Berlin in 2008, currently has offices in both ...

Boasting a star-studded roster of investors, New York-based startup Chartbeat has raised a $3 million Series A. The cash infusion is led by Index Ventures and rounded out by the likes of Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Jason Calacanis, Chris Sacca's Lowerc...

Swipely, a Blippy competitor, has just announced a $7.5 million series A round of funding from First Round Capital, Greylock Partners, Index Ventures and several angel investors, including Ron Conway and Chris Sacca. This news comes hot on the heels ...

It’s now confirmed: eBay is selling Skype to a group of private investors. The New York Times reported that a deal was imminent late last night, and this morning, eBay officially announced it, along with the price: $2.75 billion. Specifically, eBay i...

The fate of eBay-owned Skype has been in question for months now. Back in April, it looked as if eBay was going to spin-off the VoIP service as a publicly traded company. Now we've learned that Skype will be sold to private investors. According to th...

Playfish, makers of some of the most popular casual games on social networking sites, has raised $17 million in funding from Accel Partners and Index Ventures. The company has its biggest presence on Facebook, where it has four of the top ten applica...

It isn't immediately obvious from the website what Index Ventures is. Clearly, as the name would indicate, the company is a venture capital firm, but the site was sent to me earlier this evening to check out for future coverage, and for a minute, I ...

London-based OpenAds has supposedly raised $15.5 million in venture capital from Accel Partners, according to a now invisible report on Paid Content. Participation in this round also comes from existing backers Index Ventures, First Round Capital, Ma...

Photoways, a European photo-sharing, storing and printing service, has raised about $5 million in a Series B round of funding, led by new investor HarbourVest Partners LLC, Boston, and repeat investors Index Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. Th...

Joost announced that five selected parties have collectively invested about $45 million in the Internet television company. Investors include Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, both major players in the venture capital game. Also involved with Joost...

Netlog, previously known as Facebox, is relaunching (again) under their latest new brand name, with €5 million ($6.8M) in their pocket from a round of funding backed by Index Ventures. Netlog has an extensive, and confusing, history. Feel free to del...

Index Ventures informed us earlier today that the firm, which is among the leading early-stage Internet investors in Europe, has closed a €350M fund. That brings the total capital under management to more than €1 billion. They've also added former Sk...

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